Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 58 Bleeding
"Is the weather too dry..."

Jiatou thought subconsciously.

Suddenly, he felt dizzy.

Immediately afterwards, the nosebleed continued to flow down as if it could not be stopped.

He was startled, and subconsciously wanted to find something to wipe, but realized that he didn't bring paper.

So he could only hang his head and let the nosebleeds stay on the rock wall of the stele.

"Are you OK?"

As the day was approaching, one of the trainees who were dejectedly climbing down the rock wall noticed his situation and asked aloud.

"It's okay...it should be fine..."

Chito was taken aback, but still waved his hand and replied.

His nosebleed stopped quickly.

Except for a little more "flow", there seems to be no big problem.

"I shouldn't be 'evil'..."

Jiatu was a little apprehensive, and asked the black voice in his heart.

【do not know……】

Heiyin also seemed a little hesitant: 【I haven't seen you in such a situation... Are you really not feeling dizzy or want to vomit? 】

"Dizziness may be a little..."

Jiatu thought for a while and replied, "Maybe I'm a little dizzy?"

[If you feel dizzy, there is no other way...]

Heiyin pondered for a while and replied: [Let's observe first, if it really doesn't work, we'll find a way. 】

"Ok."

Kato nodded.

While he was talking to Heiyin, the trainee beside him saw him pondering for a while, nodding for a while, thinking that his brain was damaged by the stone tablet, and asked him worriedly:
"Are you okay? Do you want me to carry you down?"

"Ah? It's okay, thank you."

Jiatu didn't expect to meet kind-hearted people at this time, so he quickly shook his head and said:
"Then I'll go alone."

"Okay, let's go together then."

The young trainee nodded, planning to wait for Jiatu to go down first.

In the end, he didn't want to, Jiatu pointed up directly:

"I'll go up there, how about you?"

"what?!"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he was full of confusion and said:
"It's almost dawn, do you still plan to continue climbing?"

"After all, the invigilator only said 'no climbing', and didn't say that you must go back after dawn?"

Jiatu smiled, and from the startled eyes of the young man, he already understood his plan.

He waved his hand, said goodbye to the boy, and continued to go up:
"Thank you for your concern, there will be a period later."

"No way...you really want to..."

The young man stared blankly at the bloodstains left by Jiatu and the figure of his back that kept climbing upwards.

The body that wanted to go down suddenly froze in place.

.

Jiatou didn't realize what the boy was thinking.

He was just a little worried about his body.

The "burden" came faster than he had imagined, and once it broke out, it was so violent.

After climbing another 30 meters or so, he noticed streaks of blood suddenly appearing from the four fingers of his right hand.

At the same time, the beating speed of his heart was a little disordered, like a deer bumping wildly, which made him feel a little tight in his chest.

It wasn't until this moment that he belatedly realized——

"I didn't expect the alienated body to be judged as an 'external force'... It's really merciless..."The Stele of Life"..."

Jiatu wiped the nosebleed from his face, and finally understood why only his own "burden" was so severe.

After all, compared to others, his entire heart and four fingers are made of alienated bodies.

In contrast, the rules about the stele and the equipment he knew about the stele were all trivial.

But even so, his "load" is still much "relaxed" than he imagined.

Jiatu estimated his current blood loss rate.

If it's just blood loss, it's not a problem for him to climb to the third wall.

But the question is the impact of the "blood loss" on his body, and whether the subsequent "load" will become more serious.

"How much blood have I bled?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help confirming to Heiyin.

【It's 50ml every time... But the second time, "Fur Elise" was affected... Xiaoguang seems to be uncomfortable...】

Heiyin replied with some hesitation.

"With my body, how many times can I bear it?"

Jiatu continued to ask.

[If it's 50ml every time... 400ml is not too much of a problem. 】

Heiyin made a judgment and replied: [That is 240 meters, enough for you to climb to the top of the stele. 】

"So what do you think? Do you want to give up the trial of the "Life Stele" for your sister?"

Jiatu breathed hard, suppressed his pounding heartbeat, and asked Hei Yindao.

【It is you who should answer this question...】

Heiyin said with some hesitation: [Affected by the "Life Stele", Xiaoguang may release the mimicry of the heart and fingers, then she and I will have no major problems, but your life may be...]

Heiyin suddenly fell silent.

Seeing that Jiatu didn't respond, she continued to ask:

[Are you going to back off? 】

"Where can I retreat to?"

Jiatu let out a long sigh and suddenly smiled:
"You said that "Fur Elise" will continue to erode my body. If I retreat this time, I will not be able to challenge the third round of tests; maybe there is something deep in the shelter that can improve my left foot, but "Thousand Wrists" is stuck on the third floor again, making it impossible for me to move on—"

"In the final analysis, do I really have many retreats and options?"

Jiatu raised his head and looked at the black shadow on the cliff:
"I'm not Noah and Warren. If I fail, I can still inherit the mantle of my parents..."

"There is a cliff behind me, so what's the difference between retreating and not retreating?"

Jiatu stretched out his hand again: "Unless it is 'jump in and die', I will never back down—"

"Even if I die on the "Life Stone", I will tell myself 'you have struggled'!"

Jia Tu spoke with certainty.

He rested on the I-shaped steel beam for a while, and then continued to climb upwards.

Every 30 meters or so, he would spit out a mouthful of blood, and the pain in his heart would come as expected.

This makes him have to rest for an hour every 30 meters or so.

But as time goes by, the pain in his heart will gradually ease.

So he will move forward again, waiting for the next "bleeding" to come as scheduled.

By the time he climbed under the third rock wall, his entire chest was basically wet with blood.

The closed mask was full of bloody smell, and a layer of blood scab formed on the moisture vents on both sides.

Even his eyes started to bleed, which forced him to stop, sit on the I-beam, and rinse off the closure with a jug.

"This time... the seven orifices are bleeding..."

Jiatu looked at the vision that had turned orange, rubbed it vigorously, and then flushed his eyes with clean water.

Fortunately, each blood loss is a one-off, and it will not flow continuously like a normal wound.

So although it looks scary, it is actually acceptable.

"Think of it as a blood donation...Anyway, it takes 400ml to donate blood once..."

Jiatu thought optimistically.

At the same time, my heart throbbed again.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help looking at his right hand.

There, half of the palm that was originally extremely pale due to lack of light had completely turned black.

It still looks a bit viscous and gelatinous, very similar to the body of "Fur Elise" he once glimpsed in the music box.

"I'm sorry... I want you to suffer with me..."

Jiatu sighed, clutching his cramped chest, and looked towards the top of the stone tablet above.

It's so close...

There are still 130 meters...

There are 130 meters left, and he can be freed from the identity of "little lame" and "waste"...

However, as he looked up, the sun also came into his eyes.

This was the first time he saw the sun of the wasteland world.

Hanging in the gray sky, it is not bright, but exudes a light purple red.

Some seem to be polluted by some strange things, full of weirdness.

"With such a sun, it's not incomprehensible for the proctor to say 'accidents will happen during the day'..."

Jiatu thought silently, tied his body to the steel beam, and leaned against the stone wall to replenish food bit by bit.

"Hey! The people in front!"

At this moment, he suddenly heard someone calling himself under him.

He looked down, but was a little surprised to see that the kind-hearted young man who had asked about his physical condition before was waving at him with a few climbers, tens of meters away from him.

"For the third rock wall, do you already have an idea?"

From a distance, the boy called out to him.

Jiatu hesitated for a moment, thinking of the previous climber.

He realizes that he and the boys are not in competition.

So he nodded:
"Why do you think so?"

Seeing Jiatu nodding in recognition, the young man and his companions looked at each other with joyful expressions:

"We saw you crawling up while bleeding, and limping one foot... So we think you must have some unique skills, which is why you are so desperate!"

"A trick..."

Hearing the boys' answers, Jiatu couldn't help but glanced at the "Gap between Double Slits" on the third rock wall.

Then he continued to shout to the boy below:

"If I have to say it, I do have this thing! But what are you going to do with the cracks in the rock? Although I have a way to pass the last difficulty, you have to climb through the cracks in the last rock yourself!"

"You're bleeding forward, it doesn't matter if we get hurt!"

But the young man said confidently: "We all come from industrial backgrounds! What we are best at is cooperating with people! As long as we work together, we can still send one or two people up to the cracks in the rocks!"

Other people around the boy also shouted loudly:
"Yes! We have made an agreement! If someone becomes a explorer, he will help others take care of their families! With the income of a explorer, it is enough for us to take care of four or five families!"

A very simple group of people...

Jiatu couldn't help thinking in his heart.

For such a group of simple and kind teenagers, he doesn't mind getting along with them.

So he untied the rope around his waist, and prepared to move a little towards the direction of the teenagers, so as to meet them conveniently.

But I heard the boy below, suddenly shouting in surprise——

"Look! What is that?!"

Jiatu subconsciously raised his head to look.

Under the mauve sun.

He saw three unusually bright, rapidly falling points of light.

　Three thousand words, rest!Continue tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)